Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1887-09-21
,s TOBACCO mARsaevL 2

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBERsl sl, 1887
 IS TOBACCO NARaoeUl
 I,'onuunicatsa.
 Some years since the writer became
 convinced that the use q tobacco, ir any form, was an injurious and danger ous habit. The very unnatural chazac
 ter of 1t would seem sufficient to satidy
 any one. without other proof. that its
 use carried in it the most objectionable features. In those long gone years au effort vas made to show the effects ol such deadly poison on the human sys tenn. But it was labor lost ; for the eves ready response vas. "I don't see any one that IS hurt by the use of tobacco" Il is not supposed that anything said O. done now can stop or hinder the uni- versal sln. for the existence of the human family seems to depend on some bad hahit or vice that wlll occasionally damn the whole race, or leave but . few to start anew. With monkeys and baboons it is different. they are yet about $ Dar- win left them.
 But your paragraph about the boyA who wanted to appear as heroeA because they were learning to smoke, awakened an old desire to say to the mothers of the rising generation to prevent their sons from the use tobacco if they can. 1t will be hard for the poor woman to do 90 while the paternai side of the hosse shows a very strong example oo the oth- CT side of the question but the results. # successful will be rich reward for the pains of the effost
 The use of tobacco may not kill-t may not shorten life-but if such a deadly and foreign substance constantly absorbed does not, t would be one in stance where nature IS not true to its own stubborn iavx The human body is compounded of thirteen distinct ele- ments. which must be gathered from the food used and when properly supplied and administered, the result is health, ssrength and clearness of mind the want of any one of these elements will very soon make its absence felt but the poison lurking in the tobacco leaf is not one of them.
 1t is almost the universal belief that the use of tobacco vorks 70 injury. The trouble, however, is that none with such views make any effost to determine the truth or falsity of their opinions They simply dont know anything about it. But the austere philosopher. who loves science better than life. digs down close to the cornerstone Of natures structure, and says the use of tobacco in any form is unnatural; if so. is direct violation of every law governing mans physical character. Nov. who can believe other wise if they stop but a moment to think. And if the tobacco habit is unnatural would any thoughtful man ask for other proof against it1
 The form of teeth indicates tha, man was intended for carnivorous animal, and by no means for chewing a cud and that he vas not intended for draft tube to a very poor furnace is quite as apparent But wherein is the evil of the obnoxious habit It is one that carries with it nothing that can be called good {; t paralyzes and benumbs the vital ener- gy. blunts the senGblIities renders man tistless and careless, and indifferent to the sense of right and wrong. brings in- civility and neglect of those duties that lie al the very base of social relations. It is foul filthy and impolite habit It is one of the gigantic factors in the pow erty and gaunt want of the age; and, just here, it may be said that people of wealth may do as they please. but for . | poor man, whose life is one round of struggle for existence. to squandes bis earn- ings on one of the foulest habits Satan ever launched on a credulous world, and see bis dependents around him hungry, or haH fed, and in rags sxbibits the ugly outlines of the monster.
 Evidence in support of the charges made against the bad habitand its effects on the body. as well as the mind. may be expected But would the proofs be any more convincing than the mere skeleton statement of the factsl 1t is very cer- tain they would not
 As to the moral and social influence, all but the very blind should be able to see without so much az the facts being pointed out
 When tobacco is burned inside of a house the fumes enter every nook and corner, from the cellar to the garret, while the unwilling participants unknow- ingly breathe and swallow the insidious poison. and is, no doubt, the cause of many pain and ache, the source of which is never suspected. The imper- ceptible virus on the point of . needle injected into the blood. viii change the whole condition of the body and render t proof against an attack of smallpox. and other poisons are alike as powerful.
 The use of tobacco, especially smok- ing it, is one of the most impolite and uncivil habits that carries a name. To many people the odor and fumes of it are abominable and yet. under many with all their feeling against it, they are obliged to inhale the filth-laden puffs without so much as the 1